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1,000 coils of fear : a novel

Title
1,000 coils of fear : a novel / Olivia Wenzel ; translated from the German by Priscilla Layne.
Author
Wenzel, Olivia, 1985-
Publication
New York : Catapult, 2022.

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Additional Authors
Layne, Priscilla
Description
279 pages; 21 cm
Summary
''I have more privilege than any person in my family. And I'm still screwed." From award-winning author Olivia Wenzel comes a captivating and unsettling literary debut about race, politics, feminism, motherhood, nationality and enduring love. A young woman attends a play about the Berlin Wall coming down and is the only Black person in the audience. She is sitting with her boyfriend by a bathing lake and four neo-Nazis show up. In New York, she witnesses Trump's election victory in a strange hotel room and later awakes to panicked messages from friends. Engaging in a witty question and answer with herself, the narrator looks at our rapidly changing times and tells the story of her family: her mother, who was a punk in East Germany and never had the freedom she dreamed of and her absent Angolan father. But in the background of everything is the memory of her twin brother, who died when they were nineteen. Emotional and funny, Olivia Wenzel writes about loneliness and finding joy in life within the roles that society assigns you. 1000 Coils of Fear is a highly original novel both powerfully poetic and full of surprises.
Uniform Title
1000 Serpentinen Angst. English
Alternative Title
  • 1000 Serpentinen Angst.
  • One thousand coils of fear
Subject
  • Women, Black > Fiction
  • Black people > Social life and customs > 21st century > Fiction
  • Black people > Race identity > Fiction
  • Twin brothers > Death > Fiction
  • Mothers and daughters > Fiction
  • Absentee fathers > Fiction
  • Loneliness > Fiction
  • Absentee fathers
  • Loneliness
  • Mothers and daughters
  • Women, Black
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographical fiction.
  • Bildungsromans.
  • Fiction.
  • Novels.
Note
  • "First published in Germany in 2020 by S. Fischer Verlag"--Title page verso.
Language (note)
  • Translated from the original German.
Call Number
Sc D 22-828
ISBN
  • 9781646220502
  • 1646220501
LCCN
2021940579
OCLC
1322193707
Author
Wenzel, Olivia, 1985- author.
Title
1,000 coils of fear : a novel / Olivia Wenzel ; translated from the German by Priscilla Layne.
Publisher
New York : Catapult, 2022.
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Language
Translated from the original German.
Added Author
Layne, Priscilla, translator.
Research Call Number
Sc D 22-828
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